Ryan Dungey and Jorge Prado win the first Red Bull Give me Five
Ryan Dungey and Jorge Prado win the first Red Bull Give me Five

Video: Ryan Dungey and Jorge Prado win the first Red Bull Give me Five

Video: Ryan Dungey and Jorge Prado win the first Red Bull Give me Five
Video: Offroad moto competition in Spain - Red Bull Give Me Five 2013 2024, March
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The first, and hopefully not the last, edition of the Red Bull Give Me Five held in Valdemorillo, Madrid, closed with the victory of Ryan dungey ahead of the almighty Antonio Cairoli and Marvin Musquin in the Pro category after a full day of activities.

In the competition for the youth of 85 cubic centimeters Jorge PradoChampion of Spain, Europe and the world, he gave an incredible driving lesson showing that with his twelve years he is capable of going very, very fast, and that he is one of the strongest promises for the future of offroad.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

In front of nothing more and nothing less than 9,000 people I have been able to see first-hand how the Motocross Madrid circuit, which I knew from having trained there, has been completely transformed with an investment of more than half a million euros. The facilities have grown and a complex of four circuits in total adapted to different levels has been formed. All chaired by a imposing stand about 20 meters high.

But let's move on to focus on what interests us. The Red Bull Give me Five It is a proposal that we had not seen until now, with a system of five riders per round over five laps in which the best were classified to reach the final. The dispute was held on a circuit that combined the benefits of American supercross circuits with European motocross circuits.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

In the knockout rounds there were no surprises, and although the six invited drivers participating in the Spanish Championship gave it their all, they could not qualify. Even so, the races between them for the last places were really exciting, rolling side by side. From among the favorites the first puncture was given by Marvin Musquin who left the first round due to mechanical problems, obviously in the repechage had no major problem and got into the final.

Jonathan Barragán wanted to do well in front of his audience but was really overshadowed by a grown Jose Butrón. He made us dream of a Spaniard in the final when in the repechage that would give him access, he came out very strong and began to lead the round, the problem was that Jordi Tixier (replacing Jeffrey Herlings) had made a bad start and was coming back very strong. The duel between the MX2 world championship riders lasted until the fourth lap, Tixier cut distances very quickly but Butrón defended himself until at the entrance of the counter-goal curve the Frenchman touched him from behind and the two went to the ground having to Leave.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

The Jose Butrón's anger was monumental and he was about to go after the French to reproach him for the maneuver, but the assists prevented him from doing so. Our pilot, full of anger but devoted to his audience, threw the helmet, the shirt and the bib to the stands to leave resigned while he saw how his possibilities vanished in tenths of a second leaving free way to Dylan ferrandis that got the last hole in the final.

Upon Jorge Prado I don't know what I can say, it was simply impressive to see how the twelve-year-old boy flew over the circuit on the back of his KTM SX 85 and completed the jumps almost the same as the big ones. He got direct access to the final where he left us speechless by taking the next classified, the Danish Mikkel Haarup, twelve seconds behind, and much further behind the Finn Kim Savaste. That's how happy little Jorge Prado was in the closed park:

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

Before the grand final we were able to enjoy an exhibition thanks to Horacio Llorens, world champion of acrobatic paraglider. A real madness to see the amount of laps that a man can make in the air without losing consciousness.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

Once in the grand finale Ryan Dungey, Ken Roczen, Marvin Musquin, Dylan Ferrandis and Antonio Cairoli faces were visible. At the start, Antonio Cairoli made a mistake in the second corner, losing ground to fifth place while Ken Roczen took the lead and began to put dirt in the middle. When he had already taken a few meters and after the first pass through the finish line, he fell to the ground in a tight curve.

The leadership was inherited by Ryan Dungey followed closely by Marvin Musquin while Antonio Cairoli began to show his true level by making a great comeback with which he had already hunted Dylan Ferrandis. Until now, taking into account that it is a non-scoring competition, Cairoli seemed asleep but how he doesn't like to lose he was the one who put the sauce in the afternoon, devouring meters little by little, hitting Musquin with an ax and following in Dungey's wake.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

Antonio Cairoli only needed one lap to prevent the victory that finally ended at the hands of Ryan Dungey and thus commented the race:

After the race the event was not over, since Maikel Melero held a freestyle exhibition and later the Red Bull Tour Bus to continue the party with good music on a hot afternoon at the Motocross Madrid circuit. But on Sunday there was even more, with the Fan's day A total of one hundred amateur riders were able to ride on the four circuits alongside the great riders who fought for victory on Saturday, although all those who went just to watch didn't have a bad time either.

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Red_Bull_Give_me_five

Looking forward to next year, I hope that he Red Bull Give me Five return to Madrid, improve some things. The press pass gave us access to fewer places than you can walk with a normal ticket (we couldn't even go to the main stand) and from the small press area there was no visibility of the entire circuit, which prevented us from getting much variety of photos.

The worst, without a doubt, was the public address system. Not because of the technical problems that left the event in silence for a few minutes, but because of some speakers who constantly made mistakes with the names of the pilots, spoke at the same time and missed many of the important moments. Either way, it was a fun, innovative, fast and frantic competition system. The folks at Red Bull have done it again.

Soon we will bring you a second installment with a gallery of curiosities and various things that we saw there.

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